7 Alternatives to Word Clouds or Phrase Clouds for Data Visualization
TL;DR: The Top 7 Alternatives to Word Clouds 1. Circle Packing 2. Cartogram 3. Choropleth 4. The Horn of Plenty 5. Treemap 6. Donut Chart 7. Grid of Bar Charts The common option: A word (phrase) cloud… Creating a meaningful visualization from data with long lists can be challenging. While word clouds (sometimes known as […]
6 Best Word Cloud Generator Tools
Word clouds are one of the simplest of data visualizations to create and understand. Everyone instinctively understands that the size of words in a word cloud corresponds to the frequency in which that word has been mentioned, with larger words receiving more prominence. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can create […]
Sentiment Word Cloud in R: Step-by-Step Guide + R Code
The Word Cloud above summarizes some data from tweets by President Trump. The green words are words that are significantly more likely to be used in tweets with a positive sentiment. The red represents words more likely to be used in negative tweets. The code I used to create this tweet is below. All you […]
Using Text Analytics to Tidy a Word Cloud
Why text analytics for word clouds? A common occurrence when people are creating word clouds is that they want more control. This might mean limiting the word cloud to frequently occurring words, joining together words in phrases, or automatically grouping together words with the same meaning. The trick to doing this is to first tidy […]
Tutorial: Smartphone Marketing – What’s in a Name?
Make sure you read our blog post What’s in a Name? A Data Science Analysis of Smartphone Marketing before reading on! Creating the first table Add your data as a dataset in Displayr. In the Data Sets section on the left, click Insert a Data Set. You can then drag and drop your data, select a file from […]